https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/gC/FW/UV1M8QRD0XN7.PNGZertoSimple, reliable, and easy to use2019-01-12T01:48:42.768ZWe use Zerto replication to provide both an HA and a DR capability for all live servers. This enables the business to have a live copy of servers available to protect against local individual server failure and also a separate copy to protect the business in case of a site failure. In the case of local failure, we use journaling to roll back to any point in time over a two week period. This provides robust protection for all live servers.,The ability to replicate only delta changes enables us to replicate nearly 200 servers with minimal bandwidth usage and so reduces excessive network costs.
Being licensed to replicate multiple copies of a server enables us to keep costs down and use a single product for both DR and HA
Journaling enables simple point in time recovery to cope with user errors that would otherwise require a lengthy restore from backups
For some servers, the 30-day journaling now replaces traditional backup products, saving cost and enabling speedy recoveries,I’d like to see improvements to the usage graphs so I could dig deeper into network bandwidth usage with the ability to see what VPG is using most of the bandwidth
The ability to just failover a single server in a VPG would be useful, as this would reduce the number of VPG that have to be created
Bulk editing of failover IP addresses would be helpful,10,ROI has been fantastic, as the product is relatively cheap and enables us to maintain very high server availability
The ability to provide both HA and DR with a single product enables the business to keep costs down and enhance uptime
Removal of the need for a separate backup product when using journaling saves on the separate cost of another product to purchase, run, and manage,VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and EMC RecoverPoint,VMware ESXi, Citrix NetScaler, Sophos Endpoint Protection, Veeam Backup & ReplicationNeil TaylorZerto: It just works well2018-10-19T16:31:11.991ZI was able to easily replicate our primary datacenter to our disaster recovery site and easily test quarterly.,Easy replication that stays in sync when testing
Easy to upgrade the tool as well as works well in VMWare during upgrades
Support was able to assist remotely as needed,Expansion of storage could cause issues at the DR side if not properly expanded before the primary DC,9,ROI
Ability to return to normal
Ability to properly test the DR environmentThomas GreenIt has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly2018-09-20T17:43:05.661ZPrimary Use CaseReplication of business critical VMware VMs over WAN to the remote disaster recovery datacenter.Valuable FeaturesThe benefits are obvious: The simplicity of the setup and the speed of replication.The speed of WAN replication is great. It is faster compared to RecoverPoint and 20 VMs replicating over a 20Mbps VPN, which has a RPO less than one minute. Of course, your mileage will vary.Improvements to My OrganizationCompared to the previous DR replication solution, Zerto has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly.,The simplicity of the setup
The speed of replication
Low RPO and RTO,It's complicated to remove the virtual appliance if for some reason you lose the host.
Replication of Microsoft/SQL Clusters needs good beforehand planning,8,Compared to the previous DR replication solution, Zerto has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly.
The simplicity of the setup and the speed of replication.,,EMC RecoverPoint, VMware Site Recovery Manager,1,1,Replication of business critical VMware VMs over WAN to the remote disaster recovery datacenter.
Recover older snapshots of VMs,Quickly set up temp sandbox environment from replicated VMs for testing purposes.,Migrate replicated copies of VMs into Azure,10Sergiy MootZerto replication solution2018-09-19T21:16:29.238ZWe use Zerto to replicate our environment for one of our customers. It provides us with the ability to failover to our other location environment and bring it up within minutes in a disaster situation or when we perform maintenance,They have a failover testing option which allows for us to check for errors before we do live failover
During failover there is very little downtime in our environment
Very good at replicating data over quickly for practically zero loss of data,The system errors on failover when there is a backup being processed
Some room for improvement on time it takes to verify data after failover,9,It is cheaper than what I thought for the value
Less down time is less information that will need to be restored or less employees waiting for systems to come back up
Provides us with the ability to reassure our customers that their environment is protected and if a disaster happens we can bring up their environment at our redundant location,Veeam Backup & Replication and Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance,Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance, Veeam Backup & ReplicationRyhlen SchoeberlWhy I like Zerto best2018-09-24T19:54:31.826ZWe are a Disaster Recovery specialty company providing the spectrum of DR - BC planning to implementation, including best of class products to enhance our clients' ability to restore data quickly and minimize downtime. As a Zerto reseller and MSP, we provide a DR site for our customers. Specifically, Zerto provides easy recovery of a failed virtual machine, with the restore point option up to 14 days and a high granularity of restore points.
Zerto can provide One-2-Many backups up to 3 local and/or DR sites. With infections like Crypto-Locker, Zerto provides a fast resumption of a VM (or group of VMs) at the click of a few buttons, to select the machine and time of the restore. And Zerto does this without snapshotting the VMware environment. Zerto can also [move] to Hyper-V in a similar manner and move Hyper-V to VMware or vice-versa.,Anyone with a large disk (VMDK) knows the issues of VMware snapshots. Most backup software is a "point in time backup" that uses snapshots. While the backup can be run multiple times per day the stress of the snapshot on the host and storage is eliminated by the continuous protection of Zerto log replication.
A client had a the disks on a VM go missing for some reason. We had them "flip the switch" for a real fail over and press the fail over button. The VM on our DR site started to come alive as the VM at the customer site was brought down. When the DR VM was fully up, automatic reverse replication started. The DR machine was available in a few minutes (to take into account different host hardware) for access. One the vm at both sites were in sync, we had the customer again repeat the fail over process and the DR site VM was turned off and the Production site VM was brought back on line. This was a 200 GB VM and the whole process was finished in about 3 hours.
Zerto also allows for "Test" fail overs that can be configured on many different functions, such as host, datastore, network and IP usage. Configuring the IPs is crucial to avoid inadvertent site cross contamination of the same VM.
Zerto can also retrieve files from any VM disk on the DR site without starting a VM. Very handy for retrieving files or directories.
Since Zerto is running continuous log replication, changes on the production VM are nearly instantaneously copied to the DR site. As with any data process, having sufficient bandwidth for "churn" peaks minimizes the delay in updating the DR site.,Zerto is in the process of update their "Offsite Backup" process. This is a scheduled snapshot of a VM that extends the "point in time" beyond the up to 14 days of granular recovery. For those wanting to have a "compliance copy" of a vm (db or exchange or files) this is mechanism that will be improving.
Zerto is an evolving product that takes user input seriously. They encourage recommended improvements and features from customers.
One thing Zerto can't do is backup a turned off VM. Many snapshot based backup software products can backup a turned off VM.
While many backup products are install, create backups and go, Zerto requires a bit of planning on the initial network configuration. Installing the software and configuration is actually easy, setting up a VPN between sites needs planning, particularly for MSPs. Once the VPN is set up the rest is quite easy. This is being addressed.,10,For us, we are having more customers with RPO and RTO concerns liking the capabilities provided by Zerto.
We have built a DR Vmware cluster for our DR business where we maintain a "Private Cloud" for our customers.
Zerto is our premier offering, and a customer sites grow, we and Zerto will grow with them.,Veeam Backup & Replication, Asigra, StorageCraft Cloud Backup and eFolder Cloud File Sync,Veeam Backup & Replication, Asigra, StorageCraft Cloud Backup,No,9,For a particular problem, they have called in a developer to assist with a unique cleanup issue.
They also recommended a free Vmware tool to assist in maintenance.Verified User

We use Zerto replication to provide both an HA and a DR capability for all live servers. This enables the business to have a live copy of servers available to protect against local individual server failure and also a separate copy to protect the business in case of a site failure. In the case of local failure, we use journaling to roll back to any point in time over a two week period. This provides robust protection for all live servers.

Zerto replication is great for the majority of live servers and enables us to successfully have high availability at a reasonable price. Not having synchronous replication is not an issue in most cases, but is a limitation for some of the SQL servers.

We use Zerto to replicate our environment for one of our customers. It provides us with the ability to failover to our other location environment and bring it up within minutes in a disaster situation or when we perform maintenance

We use it for our company that cannot have downtime on their environment. It provides the assurance that there is the less downtime as well as little to no data loss. If you are a small business you might not use all the functionality but it is there if you need it

We are a Disaster Recovery specialty company providing the spectrum of DR - BC planning to implementation, including best of class products to enhance our clients' ability to restore data quickly and minimize downtime. As a Zerto reseller and MSP, we provide a DR site for our customers. Specifically, Zerto provides easy recovery of a failed virtual machine, with the restore point option up to 14 days and a high granularity of restore points.

Zerto can provide One-2-Many backups up to 3 local and/or DR sites. With infections like Crypto-Locker, Zerto provides a fast resumption of a VM (or group of VMs) at the click of a few buttons, to select the machine and time of the restore. And Zerto does this without snapshotting the VMware environment. Zerto can also [move] to Hyper-V in a similar manner and move Hyper-V to VMware or vice-versa.

Anyone with a large disk (VMDK) knows the issues of VMware snapshots. Most backup software is a "point in time backup" that uses snapshots. While the backup can be run multiple times per day the stress of the snapshot on the host and storage is eliminated by the continuous protection of Zerto log replication.

A client had a the disks on a VM go missing for some reason. We had them "flip the switch" for a real fail over and press the fail over button. The VM on our DR site started to come alive as the VM at the customer site was brought down. When the DR VM was fully up, automatic reverse replication started. The DR machine was available in a few minutes (to take into account different host hardware) for access. One the vm at both sites were in sync, we had the customer again repeat the fail over process and the DR site VM was turned off and the Production site VM was brought back on line. This was a 200 GB VM and the whole process was finished in about 3 hours.

Zerto also allows for "Test" fail overs that can be configured on many different functions, such as host, datastore, network and IP usage. Configuring the IPs is crucial to avoid inadvertent site cross contamination of the same VM.

Zerto can also retrieve files from any VM disk on the DR site without starting a VM. Very handy for retrieving files or directories.

Since Zerto is running continuous log replication, changes on the production VM are nearly instantaneously copied to the DR site. As with any data process, having sufficient bandwidth for "churn" peaks minimizes the delay in updating the DR site.

Zerto is in the process of update their "Offsite Backup" process. This is a scheduled snapshot of a VM that extends the "point in time" beyond the up to 14 days of granular recovery. For those wanting to have a "compliance copy" of a vm (db or exchange or files) this is mechanism that will be improving.

Zerto is an evolving product that takes user input seriously. They encourage recommended improvements and features from customers.

One thing Zerto can't do is backup a turned off VM. Many snapshot based backup software products can backup a turned off VM.

While many backup products are install, create backups and go, Zerto requires a bit of planning on the initial network configuration. Installing the software and configuration is actually easy, setting up a VPN between sites needs planning, particularly for MSPs. Once the VPN is set up the rest is quite easy. This is being addressed.

Zerto is our primary high availability and DR solution. We use it across our entire organization to provide continuous replication that protects our environment. We also use Zerto to migrate our VMs between data centers and cloud providers. The simple interface and ease of being able to get it set up and configured let us quickly react to changes in our virtual environment.

It is simple to set up and use. In my opinion, one of the most important functions of a tool is its interface. If you have the best product in the world but it takes an arm and a leg to configure and a doctorate degree to use, then the product isn't worth very much.

The continuous replication is done very well. The failover and failback process runs smoothly.

This has less to do with the product than the company, but Zerto as a company really listens to their customer base. We've always had a very good interpersonal experience with their support and sales teams. Having great people behind their product is definitely one of Zerto's strengths.

Zerto does an amazing job of making sure our critical systems stay up and protected. I'm not sure I'd want to spend the money that would be required on a license for a development server, but for those systems you just can't live without, Zerto is our go-to product.

Zerto is used by the IT department to provide protection of a virtual environment. One main distinction is that it provides solid protection for single servers or a cluster of servers that are part of an application. It does a phenominal job in this task and I have been able to save countless hours using it. From recovering from botched upgrades, corrupted files, and even virus infections to leveraging the DR as a test bed for upgrades. It has a wide variety of uses.

Zerto is terrific at protecting individual servers and application clusters BUT it lacks the ability to control a full site recovery without manual intervention. If you have applications that require very limited downtime with almost no loss of data, then this is a great product for you. A failover acts as a reboot of the system, but you're only looking at a 10 second loss of data (even when protecting 9TB of data).

We use Zerto to replicate our most mission-critical virtual servers to our offsite replication host site. It was extremely easy to setup and it just works. We have had no issues with it in the last two-plus years and I can't imagine anything would be easier to setup and implement and provide better service.

I think anyone in a virtual environment that needed replication would be very satisfied with Zerto Virtual Replication software. It was so easy to get installed, setup and running and is very reliable. We have had no issues with it and are very, very happy with the results. I would recommend it to anyone needing virtual server replication.

We use Zerto to replicate our VMware environment, which has grown substantially over the past several years or so. We have an off-prem DR site that we replicate both on-site data and cloud data brought in from a wide array of formats and organizations. We love the functionality of the automation and the ease of management. It really helps free up time.

Zerto is very well suited for a situation in which you need to replicate data or info to a DR site, whether on or off-prem, or in the cloud. This software platform has a lot of cloud capabilities, and really makes sense for a lot of organizations trying to make their DR more approachable and consistent.

Zerto is used by our organization to enable replication of virtual machines on our primary VMware datacentre to a secondary VMware datacentre and will be used to enable us to pivot our disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure from a traditional datacentre to a public cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon's AWS.

We currently use Zerto to provide real-time replication to our Disaster Recovery site. It is being used by the IT department only but the servers that it protects are used by the entire organization. It gives us the ability to recover gracefully from any unexpected business emergencies with an RPO that is within 5 minutes or less. Thus reducing any down time our customers may experience.

If you have to initiate a failure to your Disaster Recovery site in case of inclement weather or just keeping your doing a once a year fail over to your DR site then this process will be easy to achieve and carry out. Also if you experienced an attack of ransomware you can use Zerto to do a file level recovery to restore only those file(s) that have been affected.

Zerto addresses the need for replication and backup when array based replication is lacking or difficult to configure and use. It also replaces the VMware product SRM, which is costly and may not always be configured depending on the array(s) that a customer may have.

Zerto installs within minutes and depending on replication bandwidth can replicate entire VM's irregardless of size.

A side benefit to Zerto is the product can retain between 14 and 30 days of backups for use at either production or DR site.

A feature of Zerto is it uses Hypervisor based replication via existing networks, which translates into no backend storage cycles or capacity wasted on array based replication and no extra networks needing to be created for separation of replication traffic, which speeds up the deployment of the software.

Zerto allows for a blend of DR related testing including failover/failback and bubble testing, without the need for extra storage capacity for journaling space. Some replication technologies need double and even triple the amount of replicated capacity to perform any testing.

Zerto is well suited for VMware shops that want/need replication without purchasing SRM. Zerto's cost is on a per VM basis, which can inhibit some applications, but there is no dependency on size, so a VM can be 1GB or 12TB, and still be licensed for backup and replication. Environments that have recoverpoint for EMC storage will like this tool, because of it's ease of use. Shops can allow VMware admins to manage the tool and thusly manage VMware failovers and failbacks. Zerto does work with Hyper-V as well, so they are covered by the major hypervisors.

Zerto is a great solution for those looking for hypervisor level replication that do not have the budget for having a powerful/expensive SAN in production AND also in DR, since it's storage agnostic. However, for firms that are not 100% virtualized, this solution might not be a good fit because you still need to have a method to replicate the physical machines.

Zerto is being used by my organization to replicate all our virtual servers (VMware). Our IT department is using it now to make sure we have a disaster recovery environment should anything happen. It allows us to quickly turn up a disaster recovery environment and not worry about spinning up entirely new hardware.

Zerto Virtual replication is well suited for environments that have a lot of virtual machines. It's very fast and easy to use. It can work with not only VMware, but with hyperV and others. If you have all physical servers (which, at this point, why?) then this probably is not the right replication software for you.

Currently, Zerto is being used to replicate, near real-time, our mission critical VMs from our HQ data center to our DR data center. Replicating our data over to our DR site was critical. Not only does it help us with compliance issues, it also gives me a peace of mind knowing that in case of a disaster, I am well prepared to fall over.

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About Zerto

Zerto is a disaster recovery solution that promises to help customers eliminate the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto aims to change the way disaster recovery, backup and cloud are managed. The vendor says Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds.

The vendor says Zerto is used by 6,000 customers globally and is powering resiliency offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, SunGard AS and more than 350 cloud services providers.